The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-08-12

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A THRILLING ACCOUNT.
A Correspondents Graphic Description o.
l,l the Appalling Scenes.
CHICAGO, August 1.-THE Chicago
Times special from Peoria, Ills, Says: al
the railway horroru in the history Of this
country were surpassed. When the train
drew out OF Peoria at 8 o'clock lsat even
ing, it was loaded to its utmost capacity
Every berth Of the six sleeperB was taken
and the day cars carried sixty people each
The train was 80 heavy that two engines
were hitched to 1t and when 1t passed thif
place 1t was an hour and half behind
time. Chstsworth, the next station east
Of here ia ak miles of, and the run there
YVES made in seven minutes. 80 that the
terrible momentum OF these fifteen
coaches and two heavy engines shooting
through space at the rate OF a mile s
minute can be understood. No stop was
made ct Chateworth, and on and on the
heavy train with its living freight sped
through the darkness OF night.
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. IS
Three miles cant Of Chstsworth is lit.
tie slough; where the railroad track
CROSSES dry run about ten feet deep and
fifteen vide. Over this was stretched an
ordinary wooden treetla bridge, and as the
excursion train csmo thnndering down on
it, what was tho horror Of the engineer on
the front engine when he saw that this
bridge was sire. Right up before his eyes
leaped the bright nauies, and the next in
slant he was among them. There was no
chance to stop. Had there been warning
it would have taken half mile to stop
that onrushing MACS Of wood, iron and
human lives, aud the Train was within one
hundred yards OF the sd.tongued mesaen.
gers Of death before they flashed their IA
tai signals into the engineers face. But
he passed over in safety, the first engine
keeping the rails. Aa it went over, the
bridge fell beneath it, aud it could only
have been the terrific speed OF the train
which saved the lives OF the engineer and
bis fireman. But the next engine went
down and instantly the deed OF death was
done. :. Y; y f5 Is
HORROR UPON HORROR.
| Car crashed into car, cosches piled one
on top Of another, and in the .twinkling Of
an eye, nearly one hundred people found
instant death and Fifty more were 80 hurt
they could not live. As for the wounded
they ware everywhere. Only the sleeping
coaches escaped, and IS the startled and
half.dressed passengers came tumbline
out OF them, they; found such scene oil
death as Is rarely witnessed, and
such work to do that it seemed
as il human hands were utterly incapable.
II lacked but five minutes Of midnight.
Down in The ditch lay the second engine
Engineer McClintock dead and Fireman
Apologize badly injured. On top were
piled the three baggage cars, one on tor
Of another like a child's card house aftel
he had swept 1t with his hand. Then
come the six day coaches. u They were
telescoped as cars never were before and
three Of them were pressed into juat
space enough for one.i The second car
had mounted Gifts trucks, crashed through
the car ahead ofit, crushing the wood
work ( aside like finder $. and lay
there resting on tops of the axtes while
every passenger III the front car was lay
ling dead and dying underneath Out Of
that car but four people came out alive
On top Of tho SECOND car lay the third
and although the latter did not cover it!
bearer as completely as beneath, It's bot.
tom waa smeared with the blood Of it
victims. The other three cars we're not q
badly crushed, but they. were broken anG
twisted In every conceivable way, aut
every crushed timber and beam Represent
cd q crushed human frame, and broker
bone. 4 r; Z. e
HHARTRENDINa sgESEs. \ \ II "a s; !;
Instantly the air was filled with crie
o! the wounded, and shrieks Of thos,
about to die. The gtoans Of men, th
screams OF women united to make an ap
palling sound, land above all could b
heard the ;agonizsd walls Of little childre,
ae, in some instances, they lay pinnet
alongside Of their dead parents. Ant
there was another. terrible danger to b
met. The bridge was still burning, an,
the wrecked cars were etilllaying on an,
around the 1 aercely u burning ! embera
Everywhere in the wreck gers woundet
. and unhurt men, women, and children
whose lives could be saved II they coul,
DO gotten out; but whose death, and dealt
in tho moat horrible form, was certain
|, the twiated, wood Of the broken cars cauch
! FIRE. And to fight the FIRE there was not
. drop of water, and only some fifty able
; bodied men who had 4? still !: preseuc
! Of mind and nerve enough to do thei
duty. The only light was the light Of til
|. burning bridge, and With .its aid the fit
men went to work to subdus It. For lou
hours they, fought like tiends, and for lou
, hoaru the victory hung in balance
! Earth. was the only weapon with {whic
!, the FIRE could be fought, and GO the al
. tempt was made to smother 1t out. The.
.. wan no pick and shovel to dig 1t up n
' baskets OK barfowB to- carry It IN, and q
4 desperate were they thst they dug the
\ tinRera down into the earth, which q Ion
0 drouth had baked almost ga hard as aton,
/ and heaped the precioua ,handiulls thu
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